Rubio: Obama’s speech set us back on addressing the deficit

posted at 10:55 am on April 14, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

Rep Paul Ryan called Barack Obama the “Campaigner-in-Chief” after yesterday’s budget speech, and Senator Marco Rubio follows up that criticism this morning on Fox News. “How can you call [Obama’s plan] a debt-reduction plan,” Rubio asks, “when it adds $8 trillion to the national debt?” Obama’s position, Rubio claims, appears to be that he’s against adding $12 trillion to our debt but supports adding two-thirds of that amount. Starting off by demagoguing the one actual proposal that tries to provide a parachute to fiscal balance is no way to move forward toward a solution:

Rubio also says he’ll vote against the budget deal when — and if — it gets to the Senate, saying it takes the US “in the wrong direction.” “This problem won’t solve itself,” Rubio explains, and says that his colleagues on Capitol Hill are in denial about the problem and its scope. He’s also planning to vote to defund Planned Parenthood, saying no program should be considered untouchable.

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The fact that the Democrats won’t even TALK about the deficit as though it’s a real problem clearly demonstrates that they do NOT care about it and ONLY want to destroy this country.

fossten on April 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM

Because they honestly believe(well, some of them do) that our economy can sustain a $3.7 trillion(and growing) annual federal budget. They think the problem is a lack of revenue. Where they believe these taxes can come from is beyond me. They have to know “the rich” alone can’t make up our $1.65 trillion shortfall. So what’s left? Jacking up taxes on the middle class? Good luck with that. A VAT? Again, lotsa luck. Crap-and-betrayed? Didn’t happen with a filibuster-proof majority for the Dems in the Senate and a 77-seat majority in the House, so it certainly won’t happen now.

Rubio is a Serious thinker and leader, he may be one of the few serious voices in the US Senate today. Makes me proad to be a Floridian, Also Alan West is my US Rep, so We down here in Fort Lauderdale have done our Part.

On the other hand; the GOP House Leadership is horrible. As I have said before:Boehner and his Leadership pals are like Steers at the Ohio State Fair: Lots of Muscle but NO BALLS

Put him on “K” Street where he belongs and get a Serious Speaker who can stand up to our Empty Suite President.

“How can you call [Obama’s plan] a debt-reduction plan,” Rubio asks, “when it adds $8 trillion to the national debt?” Obama’s position, Rubio claims, appears to be that he’s against adding $12 trillion to our debt but supports adding two-thirds of that amount.

I’m sure Obama is kicking himself now for not originally proposing to add $20T instead of $12T to the debt because then he could be proposing a cut of $12T instead of just $4T. Now that’s deficit reduction!

Obama’s position, Rubio claims, appears to be that he’s against adding $12 trillion to our debt but supports adding two-thirds of that amount. Starting off by demagoguing the one actual proposal that tries to provide a parachute to fiscal balance is no way to move forward toward a solution.

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Obarry would love to add 30,000,000,000,000 to the debt… or more. He just needs to be sneaky about it. Just like the single payer clip of Barry. ‘we can’t get there all at once’.
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Plus, hiding his true intentions is SOP for Barry… Lying comes easy… The ends justifying and all.
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Sorry Rubio, Obama will never lead . . . he’s a hard core Marxist with a overwhelming appetite for stealing and redistributing other people’s money. The country must stop fooling itself, this guy will never change and any search for redeeming values will bear no fruit and must stop. if you want to save the nation then start telling it like it is and stop trying to be politically polite.

Congess can’t manage the country’s finances now, why the hell should we allow them to get even 1 more red cent via tax increases and higher debt ceilings? This is the equivalent of giving crack to an addict.

Zowie! More big, brave talk from Republicans! I bet Osama Obama is quaking in his booties….

Every damn one of these so-called “conservatives” is wonderfully adept at making speeches and doing interviews. And yet the best Rubio, the Great Hope (Rubio/Ryan 2012! 1!eleventy!1), can come up with is “I’ll vote against the bill?”

I guess it’s too late to point out (to the general public, some HA commenters and Ed Morrissey his own self) that we have no money left to spend and that anything less than a drastic overhaul of government procedures as they relate to finances is vitally necessary if the nation is to survive.

If all y’all are dreaming about some great makeover in ’12, you’ve spent too much time sniffing glue. Despite what Rubio, Ryan, Boehner and the like seem to think, the “optics” and politics no longer matter. There is no money; it’s as simple as that. At the rate things are going, we will all starve; Congress and Osama Obama will be the last to lose their pampered way of life. Which is the exact opposite of how it should be.

Will we demand action from the greedy, self-important goons before it’s too late? I doubt it, judging by what I see here.

The progs are in a great position here, because by doing nothing they get what they want. Inflation will eventually fix the problem, and their friends in the greedy unions and government workers (yes, redundant) will make out just fine, and their favorite Nazi stooge George Soros will own everything else.

Zowie! More big, brave talk from Republicans! I bet Osama Obama is quaking in his booties….

This is the cold hard truth in sargastic form. Obama is able to lie to the people, change his positions, back track, double talke and vomit his rhetoric and vitriol to the American People and the press will cover for him every time.

By the time Obama finishes his 2nd term he will have set in motion the demise of our Nation the way we know it today.

There aint no stopping this train. I see only a big White Light coming down the tracks with not Conservative able or willing to stop it.

Wishing for Obama to lead is like wishing all thoses you wished when you were a child.
Pure fantasy. And while some of your wishes came true, this one will not.
Need I remind you Mr Rubio, Obama never stopped campaigning.
Every vile word that’s come out of his putrid orfice has been nothing but campaigning.

Way too mild. This was a profoundly revelatory and disturbing speech. It was a watershed speech, to be discussed and understod as such. By defining it generically as a “campaign” speech or in terms of mere “partisanship”, however “extreme, is sadly insufficient.

Rubio is consistent in message – CHECK.
Rubio is consistent in voting record – CHECK.
Rubio is consistent in commitment in resolving national challenges – CHECK.
Rubio is from a electorally important state – CHECK.
Rubio is concise, articulate, telegenic, and effective – CHECK.

I suspect he is going to be a part of the 2012 GOP ticket, whether he likes it or not. I suspect the enthusiasm for participation will only grow if another like-minded soul is there as well. My personal vote would go to Palin, but any Tea Party conservative friendly candidate would work just as well. ;-)

Cain/Rubio, Cain/Ryan, Cain/Bachmann. Cain has the balls we need. West Sec. of Defense or SOS. Palin Dept. of energy and Sec. of Interior. Rudy for AG. Ryan Sec. of Treasury. Bachmann Sec. of HHS. Rubio for speaker. Rand to lead the Senate. Ron Paul to head the Fed. Some of these names can be shuffled around. If we get anything close to this in 2012, Progressive heads will be exploding skittles and rainbows you can see from space.

Obama has no intention of agreeing to ANY budget changes. Obama, and the Democrats, will simply allow the government to ‘shut down’ until the Republicans vote for one continuing resolution after the next until after the 2012 election.

I hope the country lasts long enough to see a ticket with any two of these four on it: Ryan, Rubio, Rand Paul, Allen West.
2012 would be best but Rubio has said he won’t leave his constituents high and dry (my words) and Ryan has said his kids are too young. I don’t know what Rand Paul and West have said – and I don’t even know if it’s been asked of them. The only one with government experience is Ryan (IIRC), and West has the great military background.
Whoever it is, hopefully they’ll realize that the country desperately needs them…NOW.

He doesn’t have to be President, either. We need some gonads with intelligence in the Senate, desperately.

Currently we have gonads with feelings, and feelings without gonads, and lots of lust for power.

There is an urban legend that a good brain is wasted in the Senate. This is not true. However, since the Senate is top loaded with bad product, a good brain could implode without sustaining faith in a higher power.